William S. Burroughs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Pariah or Pope
by Frederick Kaufman

The work presented in Aperture's third "On Location" issue reveals that we live in a constant state of transformation, that the naming of things does not make them any more tangible, that the "decisive moment" is over before it begins, and that the "fixative" nature of photography makes it marvelously complicit in its paradoxical relationship with the work.